Investigation Of Last Minute Democrat-To-Republican Switch Abandoned

401353 10: Maquettes of donkeys and elephants, symbols of the Democratic and Republican Party, from the Party Animals Project are displayed March 22, 2002 in Washington, DC. One hundred pairs of donkeys and elephants will be decorated by artists for DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities'' Party Animals project and will be displayed throughout the nations capital in Spring, 2002. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Investigators have abandoned looking into a Democrat who switched to a Republican in the last-minute before the primary. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor says he ended an investigation into how a Democratic lawmaker made a last-minute switch to the Republican Party so the public would know what he’d found in time for the primary election.

Kent County Prosecutor William Forsyth says he didn’t get the phone records of House Speaker Jase Bolger and Rep. Roy Schmidt because the request could have taken months. Forsyth tells The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press that he couldn’t wait.

Schmidt was a Grand Rapids Democrat who switched to the GOP just before the filing deadline for the Aug. 7 primary and recruited his son’s friend to be his Democratic opponent. Bolger was aware of the effort.

In July, Forsyth said no laws were broken, but he called the scheme a fraud on the public.